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Fiction · 1812

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Reading time
about 7.5 h
Length
102,755 words · 258 pages in print
Structure
64 chapters
Language
English (translated from German)
Era
Romantic

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were philologists, not entertainers: they set out to record the household tales of the German-speaking lands before they were lost. The first volume of their Kinder- und Hausmärchen appeared in 1812 and the second in 1815, and Wilhelm went on revising, softening and shaping them through six further editions until 1857.

Here are Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, the Frog-Prince, Little Red-Cap, Snowdrop, Ashputtel, Briar Rose, the Valiant Little Tailor, the Elves and the Shoemaker and the Golden Goose — together with a good many tales stranger, funnier and more brutal than the ones everybody knows.

The English text belongs to the Taylor tradition: the translation first published in 1823, which gave these stories the names they still carry in English — Snowdrop, Ashputtel, Briar Rose. It is a selection and not the whole of the German collection, and it is given here entire.

Contents

  1. The Golden Bird
  2. Hans in Luck
  3. Jorinda and Jorindel
  4. The Travelling Musicians
  5. Old Sultan
  6. The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
  7. Briar Rose
  8. The Dog and the Sparrow
  9. The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  10. The Fisherman and His Wife
  11. The Willow-Wren and the Bear
  12. The Frog-Prince
  13. Cat and Mouse in Partnership
  14. The Goose-Girl
  15. 1 — How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts
  16. 2 — How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes
  17. 3 — How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief
  18. Rapunzel
  19. Fundevogel
  20. The Valiant Little Tailor
  21. Hansel and Gretel
  22. The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
  23. Mother Holle
  24. Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood)
  25. The Robber Bridegroom
  26. Tom Thumb
  27. Rumpelstiltskin
  28. Clever Gretel
  29. The Old Man and His Grandson
  30. The Little Peasant
  31. Frederick and Catherine
  32. Sweetheart Roland
  33. Snowdrop
  34. The Pink
  35. Clever Elsie
  36. The Miser in the Bush
  37. Ashputtel
  38. The White Snake
  39. The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
  40. The Queen Bee
  41. The Elves and the Shoemaker
  42. The Juniper-Tree
  43. The Turnip
  44. Clever Hans
  45. The Three Languages
  46. The Fox and the Cat
  47. The Four Clever Brothers
  48. Lily and the Lion
  49. The Fox and the Horse
  50. The Blue Light
  51. The Raven
  52. The Golden Goose
  53. The Water of Life
  54. The Twelve Huntsmen
  55. The King of the Golden Mountain
  56. Doctor Knowall
  57. The Seven Ravens
  58. The Wedding of Mrs Fox
  59. Second Story
  60. The Salad
  61. King Grisly-Beard
  62. Iron Hans
  63. Cat-Skin
  64. Snow-White and Rose-Red

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Jacob Grimm

1785–1863 · Romantic

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Wilhelm Grimm

1786–1859 · Romantic

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